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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ELW_jacob-e-yoder_Lynchburg-VA.html
Jacob Eschbach Yoder (22 Feb. 1838-15 Apr. 1905), reared a Mennonite in Pennsylvania, came to Lynchburg after the Civil War to teach former slaves in the Freedmen's Bureau's Camp Davis School. Following Reconstruction, Yoder served as supervising …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ELV_diamond-hill-baptist-church_Lynchburg-VA.html
Diamond Hill Baptist Church was established in 1872, seven years after slavery was abolished. The current church, a Gothic Revival-style building, was completed in 1886. Under the pastorate and leadership of the Rev. Dr. Virgil A. Wood from 1958 t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ELU_virginia-university-of-lynchburg_Lynchburg-VA.html
In 1886 the Virginia Baptist State Convention founded the Lynchburg Baptist Seminary as an institution of "self-reliance," "racial pride," and "faith". It first offered classes in 1890 as the renamed Virginia Seminary. Under the direction of Grego…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18GH_lynchburg-college_Lynchburg-VA.html
Lynchburg College was founded in 1903 as VirginiaChristian College by Dr. Josephus Hopwood anda group of Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)clergymen and lay leaders. It is one of theearliest colleges in Virginia to be founded as acoeducational…
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Born in Lynchburg in 1913, Col. Vincent W."Squeek" Burnett learned to fly at age 16.By the mid-1930s, he was one of America'srenowned aerobatic pilots and a member ofthe Flying Aces Air Circus. He performedsuch signature maneuvers as the Square Lo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13LO_civil-war-in-lynchburg_Lynchburg-VA.html
This was the site of a Confederate training camp and Union prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War. Before Virginia seceded from the Union in April 1861, the population of Lynchburg doubledwith the influx of soldiers fromother parts of the state…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12UC_kemper-street-station_Lynchburg-VA.html
The new Kemper Street Station, which opened on October 31, 1912, was one of many improvements made in Lynchburg by Southern Railway to double track its mainline between Atlanta and Washington, D.C. The Rivermont Tunnel, the James River Bridge, and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12U3_john-warwick-daniel_Lynchburg-VA.html
(west face)John Warwick Daniel · Born in Lynchburg, September 5, 1842 · Died in Lynchburg, June 29, 1910 · Foremost and best loved Virginian of his time. (north face)Major in the Army of Northern Virginia, and for twenty-fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11PU_montview_Lynchburg-VA.html
Montview was constructed in 1923 as the home of Senator and former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, Carter Glass. Glass served in the House of Representatives and Senate from 1902 to 1946 and was known as the "Father of the Federal Reserve System" …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10VK_lynchburg-history_Lynchburg-VA.html
Fifth Street was known as Ferry Road early in the 1800s. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Southall Freeman was born nearby in 1886. By the mid-20th century, thirty African American-owned businesses lined Fifth Street, the center of black life…
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